VAP's Volume Metrics Drone Scan Services 

Unlocking the power of Victoria Air Photos and Survey RPAS technology for real-time volume of your stockpiles or cuts in Victoria, the Vacouver Island or The Lower Mainland, BC.

 No BC Land Surveyor needed!  

• We can provide an extremely fast, accurate and cost-effective method to analyze volumes and provide timely reports. 
• Our professional, survey grade, DSLR RTK camera (ZP1) & RPAS (M300) ensure the best results possible for photogrammetry Volume Metric Techniques. 
• We safely fly the drone over stockpile volumes instead of sending a crew to traverse a dangerous site.
• Site management can track their inventories and site progress cheape, faster, safer and in a more reliable way using us!
• With customizable inventory reports for stockpiles, we can give everyone-from production supervisors on site, to auditors at the head office the data they need to make mission-critical decision faster.

 

Why Drones for Volume Metrics?

• Surveying stockpiles with drones is significantly faster and less obtrusive to daily processes than traditional base-and-rover methods. In fact, everything we do at Victoria Air Photos and Survey  is intended to make surveying workflows—and, thus, all earthwork operations—more efficient
• The benefits of optimizing reporting and reconciliation operations aren’t isolated. We’ve found that, once our customers settle into a drone surveying and reporting workflow, they have more flexibility to start leveraging the highly accurate maps for higher-value analysis, like comparing surveys to mine-plan designs.
• Streamline every stage of a site's lifecycle, including  the reclamation process by having more relevant reports early on.
• In short it is easy to see the value accurate stockpile measurements and smarter inventory reporting brings to every corner of a mining or aggregate business. 

Accuracy and legal considerations.

• Get accurate results without the large expence of a BC Land Surveyor. In addition to some limited ground control done by trained survey crew/technitions, targets are also placed on the ground for absolute verification in this controlled workflow. 

Summary:

• ► Using drones to calculate stockpile measurements makes it easy to compare your current stockpile volumes to previous surveys and track site progress.
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• ► You can also compare stockpile surveys to a final grade design file to calculate how much material you still need to add or remove.
  
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• ► With geo-referenced images captured by a drone flying above your worksite, you can use photogrammetry to generate a 3D map of your site with measurements accurate to 1/10ft (3cm).
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• ► Easy to use software means you can take a variety of measurements, including stockpile volumes.
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• ► Using drones to measure stockpiles is quickly becoming a go-to surveying workflow for earthwork sites around the world.
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 Video on Volume Metric Workflows